Tonight at The Sanctuary, the young ones spread manga across the table and taught the elders how to read backward. Bara. Yuri. Gemstone characters who shatter and rebuild. #Queer #Trans #LGBTQ #Manga #AnimePride #ChosenFamily #QueerLit

The Drawn World
The Drawn World

The Safety of a Queer Space

Wendy The Druid

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-drawn-world

A twenty-one-year-old kid from rural nowhere teaching a mountain of a man from deep Georgia how to read Japanese comics in a queer bar basement. That's the whole story. That's the whole revolution. Scissors and tape on a bedroom wall, updated for a generation that draws its own mirrors. #QueerFiction #LGBTQ #MangaCulture #ChosenFamily #QueerArt #TransLiterature

The Drawn World

The Safety of a Queer Space

Wendy The Druid

This is why it is important to build a chosen family, connections you can turn to when you feel like things are a bit too rough or the days are a bit too taxing.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-digital-chosen-family-being-a-queer-pen-pal-afa0bd3b0313?sk=424a59bba02b765b6312602ede91ee6d

#LGBTQ #Family #ChosenFamily #Friends #Queer

My Digital Chosen Family: Being a Queer Pen Pal

About a platform that’s filled my life with friends

Medium
I’ve always believed a door should open more than once.

Hospitality was never just about tea and polite conversation. It’s about making space. About allowing more than one story to exist under the same roof. More than one connection. More than one kind of closeness.

Those coral flip-flops by the door aren’t mine.
They aren’t my girlfriend’s either.

And that makes me smile.

They mean someone else stepped in and felt at ease. Not just at the table, but in the softer corners of our place. In the spaces where you don’t perform, where you sit closer, where you stay longer.

Some people guard love like it’s limited.
We’ve learned it expands.

Our door opens easily.
So do we.

#openhearted

#presence

#hospitality

#connection

#chosenfamily

By Christmas Eve ’94, I’d already learned that there are several ways to be homeless without sleeping on a sidewalk. Couch-hopping, car-sleeping, staying too long at your boyfriend’s, getting fired for looking like the wrong kind of tired. I’d done them all.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-a-southern-queer-family-rescued-me-on-christmas-eve-7e54e27bd866?sk=eb1ba0dd8f963d001f22acca1cf83df1

#LGBTQ #Memoir #Gay #1990s #ChosenFamily

Planting Life in a Dying City

Left alone after a tsunami destroyed eir village, Lefeng would have walked into the mountains and not looked back. A child lost on the trails redirected eir course and another survivor planted the seed of an idea – a new family. Lefeng's commitment to those ey comes to love will take em to the hated city and a new way of life. But in a slowly dying city, Lefeng's determination can only carry eir family so far.

Now on Itchio:
https://jess-mahler.itch.io/planting-life-in-a-dying-city

#Queer #Books #ChosenFamily #Fantasy

May I present my humble offering to anyone seeking a cozy sci-fi read?
Weaving In The Ends, a novella duology that starts with a summer fling & ends in a comedic Winter Solstice brawl.

It's a feel-good chosen family story that can be read as a standalone, or as an easy springboard into the world of 2 connected novels.
Print, ebook, & audio

https://books2read.com/WeavingInTheEnds

#Writing #Reading #Books #ScienceFiction #Romance #ChosenFamily #KnittingFiction